| Encyclopedias and dictionaries - 1823 - 878 pages
...the horizontal misty air Shorn of his beams ; or, from behind the moon, In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarch«. Hilton, Book i. As when a vulture on Imaus bred, Whose snowy ridge the roving Tartar bounds,... | |
| Thomas Ignatius M. Forster - 1824 - 846 pages
...through the horizontal misty air, Shorn of his beams, or from behind the Moon In dim eclipse disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs. And again in Lycidas, in allusion to the ill luck of things done during eclipses : — It was that... | |
| William Hazlitt - English poetry - 1824 - 1062 pages
...through the horizontal misty air Shorn of his beams, or from behind the moon In dim eclipse disastrous ran; E / Darken'd so, yet shone Above them all th' Arch-angel ; but his face Deep scars of thunder had entrench'd,... | |
| Almanacs, English - 1824 - 452 pages
...Saturn 54 15 54 23 64 31 54 37 54 43 G. Sidus 15 0 14 59 14 58 14 57 14 56 In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarch? ; darkened so, yet shone Above them all th' archangel. For the amusement of our poetical leaders,... | |
| John White (A.M.) - 1826 - 340 pages
...through the horizontal misty air, Shorn of his beams ; or from behind the moon In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs. Darken'd so, yet shone Above them all th' Archangel; but his face Deep scars of thunder had entrench'd,... | |
| Richard Ryan - Poetry - 1826 - 338 pages
...through the horizontal misty air Shorn of his beams : or from behind the moon, In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs." This obstacle overcome, Milton sold the copyright for five pounds, ready-money ; to be paid the same... | |
| Richard Ryan - Poetry - 1826 - 334 pages
...through the horizontal misty air Shorn of his beams : or from behind the moon, In dim eclipse, disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations, and with fear of change Perplexes rnonarehs." This obstacle overcome, Milton sold the copy, right for five pounds, ready-money ; to be... | |
| Edmund Burke - 1827 - 194 pages
...through the horizontal misty air Shorn of his beam* : or from behind the moon In dim eclipse disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations; and with fear of change Perplexes monarchs. Here is a very noble picture ; and in what does this - '{-tical picture consist? in images of a tower,... | |
| Robert Plumer Ward - English fiction - 1827 - 422 pages
...by the poet, as belonging to the atmosphere of nature, when the sun — " In dim eclipse disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations, and with fear of change, Perplexes monarchs." The specious eloquence of Lord Oldcastle could not conceal the danger to his power, occasioned by his... | |
| Robert Plumer Ward - 1827 - 336 pages
...by the poet, as belonging to the atmosphere of nature, when the sun — " In dim eclipse disastrous twilight sheds On half the nations, and with fear of change, Perplexes monarchs." The specious eloquence of Lord Oldcastle could not ponceal the danger to his power, occasioned by his... | |
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